CHANCE

How often have you said when something unusual happens, “What a co-incidence” or “That was lucky”? Maybe when you meet someone unexpectedly or you find things working out just right for you, you would say “Ah, we met by chance,” or “I just happened to be in the right place at the right time”? Conversely we talk about being unlucky when things go wrong or we are involved in an accident.

Is there such a thing as chance? Do ‘accidents’ happen? I think not. We speak of chance and luck and accident because we have a less than perfect understanding of natural law. The laws chiefly involved in cases of chance and accident are those of “Cause and Effect” and “Attraction”. Both of these we only understand at the physical level and perhaps a little at the emotional level. Of the mental and spiritual operation of these laws we are largely ignorant and are likely to remain so as long as we persist in regarding the mind and the brain as being synonymous and investigate their operation based on this prejudice.

To try to explain what I mean, let us look at the case where ‘out of the blue’ or ‘purely by chance’ we meet a total stranger who turns out to be exactly the person we need at that time to help us cope with or work through a particular problem we are facing. I do not believe such a meeting happens by chance. When we need (rather than want) some particular guidance or help urgently, our inner self sends out signals through our aura, they may be electro-magnetic or they may be light but whatever they are, they are searching for the aura of another person who possesses the qualities we need. The person concerned is one whose aura will respond sympathetically to our aura at that time, although they usually have no conscious awareness of this. Like us, they believe the meeting is pure chance but it is not. As Alexander Pope the English poet said in his ‘Essay on Man,’ “All chance, direction which we cannot see.”

As to accidents, there is always a cause of which the accident is the effect. Sometimes the cause of an accident is obvious, like when we allow ourselves to be distracted when driving and because of that get involved in a collision. Often though causes are difficult or impossible to establish but we can rest assured there was one, even if it is something that occurred years before the ‘accident’ took place. Because of the mysterious way in which our inner selves operate through our aura, the cause of an event can often be due to thoughts another has had. Thoughts are real, no matter how ephemeral they may appear to us. Thoughts create waves of energy that travel through the atmosphere and these energy waves are picked up by minds sensitive to those particular vibrations. Most of us have strong enough minds to be able to reject such thought waves if they are of a negative nature but not everyone has such strength. Such people therefore act upon such thoughts without any conscious awareness of why and perform the negative action thought of by a total stranger. In such cases the cause is so far divorced from the effect, it is impossible for us to trace it but that does not mean it doesn’t exist. As to responsibility for such actions – who do you think should be held responsible, the one who sent out the thought or the one who acted?


The vibrational nature of thought explains why lots of people become involved in a particular way of thinking. For instance, at the moment more and more people seem to be obsessed with the idea that the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012 is going to herald a huge change in human spiritual consciousness and some even think it heralds the end of the world. So many thoughts are being projected about his by speakers and over the internet that the atmosphere is full of them and thus more and more of us pick up on such thoughts and also become interested. It is not necessarily bad that this should happen so long as we are each aware of why it is happening and retain our objectivity, think it through for ourselves and try not to become too influenced by the more extremist ideas surrounding it.

We should all guard our thoughts as closely as we can, for a careless thought may lead to a regrettable action, not by us but by someone we might never know. The mind is the most powerful instrument in the universe and as thought is the product of mind, we must accept responsibility for thoughts as well as actions.